We become?

try to stun your opponents into impotent sputtering or gape-jawed incredulous silence, by the sheer asininity of your remarks

If he were serious, he would propose some Sandy Hook Memorial Machine Gun law, establishing a requirement to emplace a large clip high calibre automatic weapon in the main office of every public school that receives federal funding

He doesn't actually propose it, because he would be shunted off to an asylum for electroshock therapy and a free lobotomy if he did

But he does the next best thing, which is to stun you into silence by his incredibly inane remarks

the technique is a variation of the "Gish Gallop", a Creationist debate tactice wherein you spew so many outrageous statements that your opponent cannot possibly debunk them all, let alone make their own points.

Rep. Gomer's asinine solution is no exception to his phenomenon

you still have to go through security to get into any of the House Office Buildings, and they won't let you bring in your gun

That doesn't upset GOP gun-gangsters like Gohmert

bad enough you have to debate people like this on the internet or at the gym, but this moron is one of the 500 most powerful people in this country.



I fleshed this out with someone on another message board he just did not get it.

The whole theory behind this is that these people choose places that are fire arm free, so therefor, all you need is for someone to have a gun there and it would not happen.

SO, everyone of the 10s of thousands of school buildings in this country would have guns in them, then all preschool and child are facilities, all churches, movie theatres, sports stadiums, stores, restaurants ... Any place that more than one person gathers will have to have a weapon on the premises with people constantly on the clock who have been trained to use them as well as trained in general combat.

He threw a snit, of course, about how I was being ridiculous in simply layout out what he suggested.

Just childish, and no concept of what they are advocating for.

Again, bad enough the average Joe, but sadly, FAR from the only congresstwit who is going to spew this nonsense.

Since she was in a conference room across the hall from the classrooms at the time. Ghomert is an idiot!

http://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-timeline-newtown-shooting-1216-20121215,0,1878564.story

Had a gun this never would have happened. How could the principal let us all down like that.

Where do these assholes come from anyways. Too bad the principal didn't have any SAMS. That would have taken care of the scum real fast.

gun might have wrought on those kids. (Or, if the aggressor had overpowered the principal and then becomes armed with it himself..... I can only imagine...)

More gunfire. That's the ticket.

It starts with the idea of a "well armed" militia. We already have a national guard. They have cherry picked only the words they want to hear for their own advantage.

The safety and general welfare trumps any individual or group of individuals right to carry a lethal weapon anywhere they want. These bullies are as paranoid about government and the majority as the shooter was in his own little mind. Other people die because of the damned ignorant excuses. The rest of us refuse to play along.

but then, that's just me. I've always been a little off.

People say ... where was God in all of this? We've threatened high school graduation participations, if they use God's name, they're going to be jailed ... I mean that kind of stuff. Where was God? What have we done with God? We don't want him around. I kind of like his protective hand being present." Gohmert went on to say "It does make me wonder, with all those people in the theater, was there nobody that was carrying a gun that could have stopped this guy more quickly?"

Yes, it is possible to be ready to respond to somebody shooting at you. Soldiers in combat zones do it all the time. It simply requires that you be on alert 24/7 and take your gun everywhere you go, even to the bathroom.

The problem is that being alert 24/7 is a full time job in and of itself. You can't be a soldier in a combat zone and be the principal of a school at the same time. The human brain is just not capable of it.

The idea that someone can be working their day job and suddenly pull out their M-4 and take the head off a shooter whenever they need to is just ridiculous.

If we're going to go, go all the way.

If you go to the Frankfurt airport you will see pairs of Polizei walking around with MP5 submachineguns in their hands, just in case someone tries some terrorism.

If they can do it so can we. Start a federal machine gun corps. Put two-man teams armed with Uzis in public places:

10 teams in a school
15 teams in a big box store
25 teams in a mall
30 teams in a Walmart on Black Friday

Carefully screen so there won't be teabaggers.

Who could possibly object to that?

Steve Blow
sblow@dallasnews.com
Published: 15 December 2012 11:04 PM

I was born and raised in Tyler. So naturally I’m proud to see my East Texas city in the news.

But there’s one mention that almost always makes me cringe. It’s whenever I see a news story with the words: “… said U.S. Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Tyler.” ...

Gohmert has become a regular on the Fox News Channel, where he can be counted on to say something not just conservative but borderline kooky ...

Just days ago, the U.S. House voted to remove the archaic word “lunatic” from federal laws referring to the mentally ill. The vote was 398-1. And of course you know who that one was ...

http://www.dallasnews.com/news/columnists/steve-blow/20121215-u.s.-rep.-louie-gohmert-does-no-favors-for-tyler--or-america.ece

This is really beyond the pale.

why doesnt the school just equip a functioning cannon at the doorway to blow away suspected shooters as well? That way they never enter the building.

attached to their heads?

The shark would demand it's lazor and the chimp it's assualt weapon.

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You know that big rubber-bottomed floor mat that's right inside the front door? You could dig a big pit and put a Burmese Tiger at the bottom, so when the shooter comes in through the front door, he falls into the hole and is eaten by the tiger.

Might be a problem at recess, so I'll have to get back to you on that one.

How many will it take? 600 million? 900? 5 guns per citizen? How about a bazooka per household??

These idiots are devoid of logical reasoning capability.

the principal comes charging out with a machine gun?

What could go wrong in that scenario?

FREAKING MACHINE GUN!)? There were 100 great responses before this one, but I had to ask.

sharks with lasers. SAMS, bazookas, 900 million guns and a cannon. Looks like plenty of material for the NRA lobbyists to work on next year. RPGs can be later, I guess.

The principal should have had a fucking bazooka....no wait. He should have had field artillery, or maybe even one of them predatory drones. Fuck it. Intercontinental ballistic missile, and anybody who disagrees with me is a socialistic coward.

Need I add...